A grassroots group is pushing the province to change local forest management policies to better protect primary forests and stabilize the logging industry, following a wave of mill closures in the province. Jennifer Houghton is the spokesperson for the Boundary Forest Watershed Stewardship Society in Grand Forks. …“BC ran out of the easily accessible, high-quality timber because the system was designed to liquidate forests fast, not to manage them long-term,” she said. …Last year, they created the New Forest Act proposal in an aim to shift BC from volume-driven logging system to one that protects primary forests and watersheds, restores damaged landscapes that are contributing to floods and fires, and manages logging in ways that keep forests working long-term with a focus on producing value-added products in mills.